I'm sorry I knot this is very off topic but I am not a member of any eye forums

Do you guys feel your eyeglasses distort your field of view?

I got prescriptions for nearsightedness today. While I can now see very sharply, I feel my field of view is now distorted by the lenses, like if the focal plane of the glasses was out of alignment with my eyes. I am seeing keystoning and it makes me a bit tipsy, near-far relations are a bit skewed, kind of like WA distortions.

The lenses were made at a major & leading UK vision place after almost 1 hour and a half of testing...

I have worn glasses forever and when I get a new set, sometimes I feel skeptical with my new spectacles when navigating stairs, until I get used to them. Here is a link to a quick read that addresses the situation you describe:

Wobble wrote:
I have worn glasses forever and when I get a new set, sometimes I feel skeptical with my new spectacles when navigating stairs, until I get used to them. Here is a link to a quick read that addresses the situation you describe:

Guari wrote:
Do you guys feel your eyeglasses distort your field of view?

It gets better. I have the no-line bifocals after wearing single-prescription lenses for decades. Took me a year to adjust. My biggest issues were going down (not up) stairs and the tunnel-vision feeling I couldn't look at anything out of the corner of my eye. Try swiveling your whole head to center something in your field of view on a crowded NYC subway platform.

Also, my nearsightedness wasn't really too bad until recently so I often shoot with no glasses, especially if the camera's finder has built-in diopter correction. But I cannot see a single control or read one letter of the LCD panel w/out reading glasses.

I'd say it's a pain in the butt but I think my pains there come from other age-related issues. :-)

henryp wrote:
It gets better. I have the no-line bifocals after wearing single-prescription lenses for decades. Took me a year to adjust. My biggest issues were going down (not up) stairs and the tunnel-vision feeling I couldn't look at anything out of the corner of my eye. Try swiveling your whole head to center something in your field of view on a crowded NYC subway platform.

Also, my nearsightedness wasn't really too bad until recently so I often shoot with no glasses, especially if the camera's finder has built-in diopter correction. But I cannot see a single control or read one letter of the LCD panel w/out reading glasses.

I'd say it's a pain in the butt but I think my pains there come from other age-related issues. :-)

At the risk of going OT on this, perhaps, OT thread, in reading this discussion I got to thinking about Henry's comment about shooting w/o glasses but being unable to read the LCD and other controls w/o glasses. That's my situation also. It occurred to me that having a monocle handy might be a solution for that. So I just ordered a +3 monocle to experiment with. So, Guari, your question sparked a discussion that spaked a thought that might be a solution to a problem. Thanks!